Ewan McGregor Quotes

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

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• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

  Imran Amed
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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
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• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
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• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
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• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
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• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
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• Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Hope
  • Research
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• I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Doing
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• I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • People
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• I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.

  

  Lara Jean Chorostecki
  • Fear
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• We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Say
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• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
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• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  

  Maggie Smith
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• South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
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• I don't really write all that well with others.

  

  Washed Out
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• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • May
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• If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

  

  Jay Leno
  • God
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• When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

  

  Johnny Rivers
  • Work
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• He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.

  

  Amy Plum
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• From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • School
  • Drama
  • Acting